Ides 17: Target Practice
Henderson Brewing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
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Score
7.09
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Belgian Blonde with Tart Niagara Cherries
Lawren Harris, founding member of the Group of Seven, is best known for the northern scenes in his paintings, but he lived much of his life in downtown Toronto, attended Central Technical High School and – in 1917 – served as a Gunnery Lieutenant in the Canadian Officers Training Corps headquartered at UofT’s Hart House during its construction.
While stationed there, he painted a 30’ x 16’ 3D set of a ruined Belgian village on what would soon become the Hart House Theatre stage. Marionettes of enemy soldiers were employed on the set for target practice so that soldiers-in-training standing behind sandbags at the back of the auditorium could shoot them – and Harris’ painting – to pieces. In 2016, Harris’s “Mountain Forms,” sold for over $11 million. Chances are no one’s in too much of a hurry to shoot that painting to pieces these days!
To commemorate great talent used for a good cause, we brewed this Belgian blonde ale with tart Niagara cherries. It’s a delicious merger of Canadian and Belgian, with notes of cracker, spice, banana, and citrus, and a subtle cherry flavour that’s sure to win you over.
Lawren Harris, founding member of the Group of Seven, is best known for the northern scenes in his paintings, but he lived much of his life in downtown Toronto, attended Central Technical High School and – in 1917 – served as a Gunnery Lieutenant in the Canadian Officers Training Corps headquartered at UofT’s Hart House during its construction.
While stationed there, he painted a 30’ x 16’ 3D set of a ruined Belgian village on what would soon become the Hart House Theatre stage. Marionettes of enemy soldiers were employed on the set for target practice so that soldiers-in-training standing behind sandbags at the back of the auditorium could shoot them – and Harris’ painting – to pieces. In 2016, Harris’s “Mountain Forms,” sold for over $11 million. Chances are no one’s in too much of a hurry to shoot that painting to pieces these days!
To commemorate great talent used for a good cause, we brewed this Belgian blonde ale with tart Niagara cherries. It’s a delicious merger of Canadian and Belgian, with notes of cracker, spice, banana, and citrus, and a subtle cherry flavour that’s sure to win you over.
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